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Using cultural neuroscience methods, the study combines noninvasive EEG with a social norm violation paradigm to test neural detection mechanisms across cultures. EEG from Chinese and US participants identifies a culture-general N400 marker around 400 ms, alongside a culture-specific frontal/temporal N400 in Chinese participants. 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Gelfanda,1  \naDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 20742; bDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109; and cDepartment of Psychology and Peking University-International Data Group/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100080, People’s Republic of China  \nEdited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved October 27, 2015 (received for review May 19, 2015)  \nHumans are unique among all species in their ability to develop and enforce social norms, but there is wide variation in the strength of social norms across human societies. Despite this fundamental aspect of human nature, there has been surprisingly little research on how social norm violations are detected at theneurobiological level. Building on the emerging field of cultural neuroscience, we combine noninvasive electroencephalography (EEG) with a new social norm violation paradigm to examine the neural mechanisms underlying the detection of norm violationsand how they vary across cultures. EEG recordings from Chinese and US participants (n = 50) showed consistent negative deflection of event-related potential around 400 ms (N400) over the central and parietal regions that served as a culture-general neural marker of detecting norm violations. The N400 at the frontal and temporal regions, however, was only observed among Chinese but not US participants, illustrating culture-specific neural substrates of the detection of norm violations. Further, the frontal N400 predicted a variety of behavioral and attitudinal measurements related to the strength of social norms that have been found at the national and state levels, including higher culture superiority and self-control but lower creativity. There were no cultural differences in the N400 induced by semantic violation, suggesting a unique cultural influence on social norm violation detection. In all, these findings provided the first evidence, to our knowledge, for the neurobiological foundations of social norm violation detection and its variation across cultures.  \nculture | social norms | N400 | electroencephalography | EEG  \nHumans are unique among all species in their ability to de  \nvelop, maintain, and enforce social norms. It is therefore highly possible that humans have evolved complex neural mechanisms for detecting norm violations quickly to punish violators to enforce the social order. Moreover, although the enforcement of social norms is universal, there is wide variation in the strength of social norms across human groups. Some groups, particularly those that have experienced a high degree of ecological and historical threat, develop stronger norms and punishments of norm violators to coordinate social action (1, 2), and such human adaptations have an evolutionary basis for group survival (3) .  \nDespite the fundamental aspect of human nature, there has been surprisingly little research on how social norm violations are detected at the neurobiological level. To be sure, there is a large amount of literature on how the human brain reacts to semantic violations (e.g.,“I like my coffee with cream and dog”) (4). Extant EEG research has revealed a notable negative-going deflection with peak around 400-ms poststimulus onset (the component called N400) when detecting unexpected linguistic stimuli across a variety of semantic tasks (5–8). Moreover, N400 effects are not confined to linguistic processing. Seminal research in social neuroscience has shown that the N400 component is observed in a variety of social tasks, including spontaneous trait inferences (9, 10), detection of stereotype incongruities (11), and processing of affective inconsistencies (12) . Taken together, the N400 serves  \nas a potent neural index of the detection of","cbCaivuYmB48Eln8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivuYmB48Eln8","pdf",1538676,6,"English","# Introduction\n## Background on social norms and neurobiological detection\n# Methods and Experimental Design\n## EEG and social norm violation paradigm across cultures\n# Results\n## Culture-general N400 marker around 400 ms\n## Culture-specific frontal N400 in Chinese participants\n## Links to behavioral and attitudinal norm measures\n## Comparison with semantic violation effects\n# Significance","[{\"question\":\"What neural component is used to detect social norm violations?\",\"answer\":\"The study focuses on the N400 event-related potential component, observed as a negative deflection around 400 ms.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the neural responses to social norm violations differ across cultures?\",\"answer\":\"A culture-general N400 over central/parietal regions appears in both Chinese and US participants, while a frontal and temporal N400 is observed only among Chinese participants.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the N400 effect for social norm violations also occur for semantic violations?\",\"answer\":\"No. There are no cultural differences in the N400 induced by semantic violation, indicating a unique cultural influence on social norm violation detection.\"}]","How culture gets embrained - Cultural differences in event-related potentials of social norm violations | PDF",1791819333]